Onions, Emotions, and Why We Cry

Posted on February 13, 2014

Why do we Cry? This video attempts to help you understand why we cry when we are really happy or really really sad. Besides emotional tears, there are also reflex tears such as the ones caused by onions or when sand gets into your eye.

Emotional tears actually contains different chemical contents than reflex tears and the reason behind this, as some scientists posits, is to actually help you relieve stress.